The book, A Soprano On Her Head by Eloise Ristad, is all about perception issues related to translating the printed page into actual sound. Fascinating.
Years ago I had a flute student who seemed to flip the treble staff upside down as she was sightreading. In other words she would play F when the actual note was E at the bottom of the staff & vice-versa at the top of the staff. I mentioned this to her parents but they weren't concerned because as an elementary student in 6th grade, she was doing fine academically. However, when she started having failing grades in middle school, the parents had her vision evaluated and discovered that she did have issues. Because she was a very smart child, in elementary school she was able to compensate & cover up this problem. But in middle school, there was too much to learn too quickly.
I also learned over the years that having students use their whole body to understand rhythm worked much better than simply note repetition.
Amazing, very interesting that your student flipped the staff vertically. I thought that if something took place it would be horizontal! Hard to know what's really going on there. It's clear there are connections but not enough research. Research seems to go in trends that encourage funding in certain directions. Hopefully more will be done on this topic!
Fascinating, thanks for sharing this.
The book, A Soprano On Her Head by Eloise Ristad, is all about perception issues related to translating the printed page into actual sound. Fascinating.
Years ago I had a flute student who seemed to flip the treble staff upside down as she was sightreading. In other words she would play F when the actual note was E at the bottom of the staff & vice-versa at the top of the staff. I mentioned this to her parents but they weren't concerned because as an elementary student in 6th grade, she was doing fine academically. However, when she started having failing grades in middle school, the parents had her vision evaluated and discovered that she did have issues. Because she was a very smart child, in elementary school she was able to compensate & cover up this problem. But in middle school, there was too much to learn too quickly.
I also learned over the years that having students use their whole body to understand rhythm worked much better than simply note repetition.
Amazing, very interesting that your student flipped the staff vertically. I thought that if something took place it would be horizontal! Hard to know what's really going on there. It's clear there are connections but not enough research. Research seems to go in trends that encourage funding in certain directions. Hopefully more will be done on this topic!
Really fascinating, Ed! Probably why the phonics teachers so a lot of rhythmic tapping with spelling and syllable stress.